Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I released last week a call to action with 23 specific recommendations focusing on health care, on law enforcement, on over-prescribing of pain killers."

"if a backlog were cleared simply by moving that great mound of work to the appellate process where appeals languish for years and years and years, it would not be regarded as a success story."

"I am not advocating arbitrary deadlines."

"Will you commit to being an advocate of it? Because I think it will take advocates in a time of increasingly threatened fiscal resources and a very expensive commitment that is necessary to being an a..."